Re: [QLD] Red Rattlers be damned!

[david <david@gwmail.nmit.vic.edu.au>]

Well, I went to a certain boarding school at Toowong. I remmeber 1980-1984 we  often had
diesal hauled cars that were red ! It was quite something as the loco had to power off at
each station. Those were the days !!

Regards,
David Head

David McLoughlin wrote:

> david wrote:
> >
> > OOPS the van cars were stainless steel. Qlders know what I mean.  I remmeber them at
> > Toowong in the early 80's.
> >
>
> IIRC those Brisbane stainless steel cars were built for a steam-to-
> electrification project from the early 1960s that never went ahead. They
> ended up being pulled by diesel locos.
>
> Brisbane had very old swing-door wooden dog-box cars that I remember
> being pulled by steam locos when I visited there when I was very young
> in the 1960s, and some were still running being pulled by diesel locos
> when I spent a year there (living in Warrawee Street Toowong, my brother
> still lives in the same house) in 1969-70.  I can't remember the colour,
> they may have been red. They may have been green. Or both. They were
> damned archaic I can tell you.
>
> When was Brisbane's last steam-hauled train in regular passenger
> service? I remember when I was very small being on one going through the
> tunnel between Central and the Valley. The carriage filled up with soot.
> I've not been a fan of steam trains much since though I do take my kids
> on museum ones that run here from time to time, for the fun of it.
>
> David McLoughlin
> Auckland New Zealand